Grilled salad with spring vegetables

Grilled salad with asparagus, spring onions, radishes, sugar snaps, feta cheese and fresh chervil. A perfect side dish when the grill is hot and you are about to roast a chicken or some meat. Also a beautiful vegetarian dish with lots of flavour and crunch.

Both asparagus and spring onions are briefly blanched before grilling in order to keep them tender without the risk of them charring too much. The blanching also reduces the powerful taste of raw onion, making the dish sweeter and more tasty.

The grilled salad is made without any dressing but feel free to add a nice vinaigrette made of olive oil and lemon juice.

If you cannot find white asparagus, replace with more green asparagus. The white asparagus, however, is very delicate and adds another dimension to the dish.

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Ingredients

15 green asparagus

8 white asparagus

8 spring onions

8 radishes, halved

150 g sugar snaps

40 g feta cheese

Fresh chervil

Olive oil

Salt

Pepper

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Instructions

Rinse the asparagus under running water to remove any sand or dirt or leave them in bowl of cold water for 10 minutes. Check the tips are clean. From the tip down peel the skin with a peeler. This is only necessary with the white asparagus. Both white and green asparagus: Get rid of the woody end: Hold the asparagus firmly towards the end and bend until it breaks naturally.

Bring a pan of water to the boil and add a bit of salt. Blanch the green asparagus for 1 minute, the spring onions for 2-3 minutes and the white asparagus for 3 minutes. When cooked, put into a bowl of cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain and dry with paper towels. Heat up the grill.

Sprinkle a bit of olive oil over the green asparagus, spring onions and halved radishes. Place on a very grill and leave for a few minutes or until you get char marks on the vegetables.

Cut the sugar snaps in smaller pieces.

Mix all the vegetables in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place on a large dish and crumble the feta cheese. Garnish with fresh chervil.

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